so, I should shell out between $500 and $830 to read in bed?
It's going to need to replace more than a paper back book to separate me from a whole paycheck.
I mean, my phone doesn't do that either but I think you need to come better than "reading in bed"
You can get kindle fire for about USD200. And yes, for book reading on your bed, it's overkill. So, aside for reading sci-fi novel in bed, I use my Archos 70IT to browse, read books, newspaper, comics, mangas, watching videos, ssh-ing to my NAS box at home, etc etc on my 4 hours daily commute
GUIs can be built to send commands to a command line.
By removing the GUI they're actually opening things up to have bigger/better GUIs than before.
Actually, if I remember correctly, Microsoft did just that on their Exchange 2007 as it can be managed completely from the powershell, without having to go to some sort of management GUI.
, but they come out looking like good guys if they only hiked their prices 5 to 15 percent.
Well a single 300GB replacement disk from IBM could cost you USD 1000 to 1200. If they jack up the price to 400%, their warranty extension program might be a cheaper solution than paying on per-case basis
the ability to force the phone to use 3G only (you need to enter certain code to get to that option on a plain android)
What code are you refering to? There is an check box option on the Nexus S to turn off 4G just like you can turn off wireless, BT, airplane mode etc..
I'm on GSM network. On the DZ you can switch between GSM(Edge, 2G)/WCDMA(HSDPA, 3G) auto switch, GSM only, WCDMA only, or turn off mobile data completely. On vanilla android you can only switch between WCDMA/GSM, lock it to 2G, or tun off mobile data. Option for forcing the phone to stick on WCDMA can be accessed via hidden menu called "Phone info". To get to the "phone info" menu, either type "*#*#4636#*#*" or create the shortcut using app such as Any Cut
I'm another person with an HTC phone. What I really want from my next phone is Android without Sense UI crapping it up. Yes, I could get an HTC phone and put CyanogenMod on it, but I'd rather support manufacturers who give me what I really want without having to invalidate my warranty and mess with firmware.
But of course you can! Buy one of the nexus series phone, and you'll get the pure android experience and direct support from google for software updates.
As for me, I recently switched from HTC Desire Z (which got stolen) to Nexus S, and I'm already missing the text reflow on the built in browser, pinch to switch browser window, the ability to force the phone to use 3G only (you need to enter certain code to get to that option on a plain android), HTC IME keyboard, and lots of other tweaks from HTC.
If I'm the "product," wouldn't that mean I'm entitled to some form of compensation (preferably monetary)?
Sure, you're entitled to use their fairly decent browser, webmail, and search service. Their ads actually managed to point me to a decent hotel deal a couple weeks ago
Yeah, I would like to know too. I planned to root my Desire Z the moment its warranty expires, but ended up using the stock ROM (and OTA upgrades) well in to the second year of my ownership. The only thing that I do to make it a lil bit faster was replacing the stock Sense launcher with LauncherPro free. No root required
As recently as 2-3 years ago models that ran on AA batteries existed and some of them had decent battery life (a couple of hundred shots with flash). Now every new camera model is tied to a different proprietary lithium battery. This is for the good of the consumer of course, not so the camera manufacturer can gouge on batteries and make it more cost effective for the customer to replace the camera every 2-3 years. Makes me want to spit.
Some of Canon's A series Powershots still take AA batteries. Pentax is known to make AA powered DSLRs. The latest one, Pentax K-r came with Li-ion battery, but you can buy a special adapter to use AA.
I wonder about the potential for greener computing. If the power usage is so low, drop the battery all together and add a solar cell with a low leakage super cap.
HTC Desire was the last Smartphone I know of that has *physical buttons*. Which is one thing making me hang on to it to the bitter end. (that and it's still a pretty good phone, after 18 months)
My Desire Z has 40-ish physical buttons, including the Desire-ish small trackpad under the screen
In a related question, why does anyone still do this? As far as I know, all the modern browsers have spell check built in and I can't think of any other reasons off the top of my head.
The "Google NEVER files patent lawsuits!" meme is officially dead. Fanboys are flipping out in the comments, trying to come up with new arguments to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation and pin the blame on others.
Well, technically, it's HTC that sues Apple. Google still hasn't file a patent lawsuit
So this becomes a moral issue. Companies should have a "don't sell to dictators" policy. We should isolate them from all trade. No more business with China until they have a freely elected government. No more oil from Saudi Arabia until the kingdom is overthrown.
No more business with the US government until they close Guantanamo?
This actually brings up an interesting thought for me. I wonder how well it would go over that, if you saved and walked away from a game, when you came back, it gave you one of those TV-esque 'Previously, on [game]...' intros (skip-able, of course).
The Nintendo DS' Pokemon's tittles actually do that if I'm not mistaken. If I put away the game for several days, upon loading the save game, it will show me the recap of some events in the past. Who I have beaten, what pokemon did I catch, things like that. The longer you put away the game, the longer the recap gets
This has been going on for quite sometime in enterprise world, well sort of. Although not quite the same, Citrix's NetScaler box can be "upgraded" via license purchase. This usually increases throughput and the number of allowed SSL sessions. IBM also sells their P-series server in quite similar manner. They will ship the box with all sockets filled with processors, but only enable the ones that you purchase. If you require additional processors, you will have to pay IBM to enable more processor.
In the end, you still get what your money worth. I never consider an overclockability as a feature, I treat it more like a bonus. And if Intel or AMD decides to stop giving bonus, that's fine for me
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U2? Singing rock music? Are you kidding me?
so, I should shell out between $500 and $830 to read in bed? It's going to need to replace more than a paper back book to separate me from a whole paycheck. I mean, my phone doesn't do that either but I think you need to come better than "reading in bed"
You can get kindle fire for about USD200. And yes, for book reading on your bed, it's overkill. So, aside for reading sci-fi novel in bed, I use my Archos 70IT to browse, read books, newspaper, comics, mangas, watching videos, ssh-ing to my NAS box at home, etc etc on my 4 hours daily commute
GUIs can be built to send commands to a command line.
By removing the GUI they're actually opening things up to have bigger/better GUIs than before.
Actually, if I remember correctly, Microsoft did just that on their Exchange 2007 as it can be managed completely from the powershell, without having to go to some sort of management GUI.
, but they come out looking like good guys if they only hiked their prices 5 to 15 percent.
Well a single 300GB replacement disk from IBM could cost you USD 1000 to 1200. If they jack up the price to 400%, their warranty extension program might be a cheaper solution than paying on per-case basis
No mention of Duke Nukem Forever?
the ability to force the phone to use 3G only (you need to enter certain code to get to that option on a plain android)
What code are you refering to? There is an check box option on the Nexus S to turn off 4G just like you can turn off wireless, BT, airplane mode etc..
I'm on GSM network. On the DZ you can switch between GSM(Edge, 2G)/WCDMA(HSDPA, 3G) auto switch, GSM only, WCDMA only, or turn off mobile data completely. On vanilla android you can only switch between WCDMA/GSM, lock it to 2G, or tun off mobile data. Option for forcing the phone to stick on WCDMA can be accessed via hidden menu called "Phone info". To get to the "phone info" menu, either type "*#*#4636#*#*" or create the shortcut using app such as Any Cut
I'm another person with an HTC phone. What I really want from my next phone is Android without Sense UI crapping it up. Yes, I could get an HTC phone and put CyanogenMod on it, but I'd rather support manufacturers who give me what I really want without having to invalidate my warranty and mess with firmware.
But of course you can! Buy one of the nexus series phone, and you'll get the pure android experience and direct support from google for software updates. As for me, I recently switched from HTC Desire Z (which got stolen) to Nexus S, and I'm already missing the text reflow on the built in browser, pinch to switch browser window, the ability to force the phone to use 3G only (you need to enter certain code to get to that option on a plain android), HTC IME keyboard, and lots of other tweaks from HTC.
If I'm the "product," wouldn't that mean I'm entitled to some form of compensation (preferably monetary)?
Sure, you're entitled to use their fairly decent browser, webmail, and search service. Their ads actually managed to point me to a decent hotel deal a couple weeks ago
Yeah, I would like to know too. I planned to root my Desire Z the moment its warranty expires, but ended up using the stock ROM (and OTA upgrades) well in to the second year of my ownership. The only thing that I do to make it a lil bit faster was replacing the stock Sense launcher with LauncherPro free. No root required
As recently as 2-3 years ago models that ran on AA batteries existed and some of them had decent battery life (a couple of hundred shots with flash). Now every new camera model is tied to a different proprietary lithium battery. This is for the good of the consumer of course, not so the camera manufacturer can gouge on batteries and make it more cost effective for the customer to replace the camera every 2-3 years. Makes me want to spit.
Some of Canon's A series Powershots still take AA batteries. Pentax is known to make AA powered DSLRs. The latest one, Pentax K-r came with Li-ion battery, but you can buy a special adapter to use AA.
I wonder about the potential for greener computing. If the power usage is so low, drop the battery all together and add a solar cell with a low leakage super cap.
You mean like this? http://www.logitech.com/en-au/keyboards/keyboard/devices/7454 . It's not bluetooth, but I think it'll work with tablet with full fledged USB port such as the Acer Iconia, or the GTab with usb adapter
Even long-time Unity users have a whole fuck of a lot of trouble doing those things. Many just learn to accept that they never be able to.
There's no such thing as "long-time unity users"
It zooms too!
It didn't work for me. Maverick consistently gave me more than 3 hours on my vaio e, while natty barely reached 1 and a half hours
+1. I've been sticking with Maverick on my Vaio E, since Natty actually slashed half of my battery life, even when forcing ASPM
The one that got banned in Germany is the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Box art: http://assets.gearlive.com/blogimages/gallery/galaxy-tab-10/01-galaxy-tab-10_medium.jpg Power adapter: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/5719189901_a2ca040d3d.jpg Connector: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3637/5719194513_b5ef1f5fc0.jpg Case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0PXJvJEfdU
HTC Desire was the last Smartphone I know of that has *physical buttons*. Which is one thing making me hang on to it to the bitter end. (that and it's still a pretty good phone, after 18 months)
My Desire Z has 40-ish physical buttons, including the Desire-ish small trackpad under the screen
And it still has a large number of uncopied features (like a mail client) which I've simply become used to having around.
Not having mail client is actually one of my major reason in adopting firefox, and abandoning netscape
In a related question, why does anyone still do this? As far as I know, all the modern browsers have spell check built in and I can't think of any other reasons off the top of my head.
Spellcheck? yes Grammar correction? No
The "Google NEVER files patent lawsuits!" meme is officially dead. Fanboys are flipping out in the comments, trying to come up with new arguments to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation and pin the blame on others.
Well, technically, it's HTC that sues Apple. Google still hasn't file a patent lawsuit
So this becomes a moral issue. Companies should have a "don't sell to dictators" policy. We should isolate them from all trade. No more business with China until they have a freely elected government. No more oil from Saudi Arabia until the kingdom is overthrown.
No more business with the US government until they close Guantanamo?
that's the problem. I'm not a monkey
This actually brings up an interesting thought for me. I wonder how well it would go over that, if you saved and walked away from a game, when you came back, it gave you one of those TV-esque 'Previously, on [game]...' intros (skip-able, of course).
The Nintendo DS' Pokemon's tittles actually do that if I'm not mistaken. If I put away the game for several days, upon loading the save game, it will show me the recap of some events in the past. Who I have beaten, what pokemon did I catch, things like that. The longer you put away the game, the longer the recap gets
I hate that. What's the advantage of selling a crippled piece of hardware? It costs the same to make, and it sells for less.
so they can put higher pricetag on uncrippled or less crippled parts
This has been going on for quite sometime in enterprise world, well sort of. Although not quite the same, Citrix's NetScaler box can be "upgraded" via license purchase. This usually increases throughput and the number of allowed SSL sessions. IBM also sells their P-series server in quite similar manner. They will ship the box with all sockets filled with processors, but only enable the ones that you purchase. If you require additional processors, you will have to pay IBM to enable more processor. In the end, you still get what your money worth. I never consider an overclockability as a feature, I treat it more like a bonus. And if Intel or AMD decides to stop giving bonus, that's fine for me