The hardware expensive? I bought the TV for a fairly inexpensive amount, but by the time many people I know was crying that it was only 60Hz (not 120 or 240 or 600plasma) and that it wasn't 3D, blah blah blah. It was fair priced at the time I bought it, I think the price hasn't come down much since then, which puzzles me.
I really wasn't expecting anything less, but a full keyboard. How else would it be easier to quickly type urls or search words?
I remember the time when I had to click arrow up/down until I get a letter I wanted, then arrow right, repeat until I typed a full word. This is useful, resistant and you don't have to look down to see what you're typing. If that's not the case of what you wanted, you can control the TV with your Android phone and/or your iPhone.
The biggest fail, was Google taking a year to allow app installation and the networks blocking access to the device on their pages (CBS, Hulu, etc). I have this TV, and EVERYONE in my family that plays with it for 5 minutes, wants one.
Add networks as well. GoogleTV was a really neat idea but besides your nominees, many others help sabotaging it:
Hulu, denying access (In part, also thanks to Adobe that allowed Hulu to block the bypass of changing user agent).
Networks, that also placed locks to flash running from GoogleTvs.
Google, taking 1 year to provide a supposedly update to install apps.
Sony (I guess Logitech as well) for locking down the console.
It's sad that a neat idea can be thrown away and bad mouthed because of many factors. And failing to give what the customer wanted, instead what the providers desired.
I see it coming as an Android/iOS device, there are two TV apps, the paid one and the free one. The paid one uses a subscription service, and the free one runs with obnoxious admob ads on the screen.
I mean, if you were to survey the Apple store for the hottest sell this holiday it certainly won't be Dells, Kindles, Nooks or Samsungs. So who to believe?
I was intending to express that small population groups should be heard (not going down to the granularity of individuals), but unfortunately you pointed out a great defect, and that is when a single small population group is not the one heard, but also the one controlling the whole deal.
No, he's not. That's just part of the question but as you showed, the slashdot reader is obviously biased. The headline clearly includes Win8 and iOS.
I'm assuming the question is if you want all the OS to become the average user OS where you click big buttons instead of the extreme power user where you preferably type most of your commands and tend to be more tech savvy.
And as the GP asked, I wonder as well, if this is the proper target audience for such question, particularly when I clearly hate limiting interfaces, but many people have found that iOS with all it's limitations to the user provides them with what they need.
It's not that people are stupid, it's that people may not have a complete education in given subjects.
That, and the fact that many believe they know the subject without knowing makes the perfect reason for the "wouldn't work".
This reasoning, however, doesn't imply that the opinions of many shouldn't be listened and taken into account for legislation (based on some quorum that is). Overall, I'd assume that respecting the X% of the population (where X is a fairly low number) should be a goal for the government.
Then again, I don't know about the topic and I'm talking about it, so most likely I'm making some sort of mistake.
Poor creatures. They provide minimum interest on saving accounts, they charge for about anything and they want to charge fees for using the cards.
I signed up for an account at INGDirect. They used to pay the best interest rate and not charge a dime for basic bank functionality. Now I realize my interest rate went dramatically down, it's still not down to the point of my other banks and yet, they don't charge me for the stuff.
Something is not working right with BoA approach that they need to look into. Mainly, I think is the "we want lots of money from anyone willing to give" mentality.
Add to that they are often free with contact and you get these poorly made phones ending up in the abusive little hands of children.
I assume you meant "Contract". And here's a point: people that didn't pay anything for them will also tend to abuse the devices even more and not care about them.
When something costs more, you tend to take better care of it. I paid nothing for my Samsung Galaxy S, and I tend not to care that much if it falls. I hit it, I drop it, and if it breaks it's probably because it was abused. Afterwards, I know many people will go to their carrier and lie about what happened. Have you noticed the humidity sensors in all new phones that detect when the phone was wet? Well, that's to tell if you're telling lies when you take your device to support.
I haven't tried Siri. I put Iris, but I don't know how it this more useful than the Google gadget on my android with the microphone on it. I click the microphone and say "navigate to -place-" or "drive to -place-" or "call -someone (number/contact/place)" and the phone does it.
If the whole thing is, perhaps, that Siri replies back using Text-to-speech, I'm not impressed. If it's about understanding natural language, I've been making my searches more "natural" on Google, and seem to be working fine. I'll have to check it, but so far I don't see the significant advantage.
Perhaps someone can enlighten some users here that haven't understood the whole drama about Siri?
There are companies charging money out of using Google Maps. Why should they get a free ride on Google's servers? I have written API's for my use and I certainly won't go above the limit, just the same way I won't go above the mailbox limit they set for my free Gmail account.
If you need more, you pay more, the question is where is going to stop, you may ask the ISP/carriers/airlines/etc...
No, but I didn't write a story/blog and/or submitted it. To explain my sarcasm, since there's no concrete evidence of time travel so far (as you clearly appear to understand), I don't see the reason of writing such articles.
So unless something happens, like a T-800 knocking on Bill's door to force him to buy it (and we'll not know). This type of speculation seems like a waste of time.
I've seen that I can get an iPhone 3Gs for free (on Apple's website). Isn't it 2 years old? At my house, we got an HTC Aria and a Samsung Galaxy S for free, about 4 months after release.
Samsung will keep flooding the market with devices that can reach the masses, with no care for exclusivity contracts with carriers. Their goals are just plain different from Apple's.
As you said, it's probably a market strategy. Every vendor focuses on certain companies/universities to sell their products. The one I worked for (what I guess is a 2nd-tier ranked university) received a lot of discounts depending on the vendors, and used to get lots of Intel based processor CPUs. Perhaps AMD is targeting more aggressively Tier 1 universities, while others take a wider range. That's why I asked.
Of course many are interested in seeing their products advertised at top universities, while others are covering a wider spectrum of customers. I'm wondering if anyone else here has more insight.
There is no question. Some Samsung models will come out to the market at a more affordable price than an iPhone. And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.
So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.
Ask Continental, I don't know how do they manage to make the seats so uncomfortable to everyone without increasing something else. Sounds like chaos theory.
I don't think is a matter of where do you park it, but how do you divert the whole thing. Is it better to drill a hole and send it somewhere you know or wait for it to explode and evacuate all the surroundings and deal with the randomness of the event?
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The hardware expensive? I bought the TV for a fairly inexpensive amount, but by the time many people I know was crying that it was only 60Hz (not 120 or 240 or 600plasma) and that it wasn't 3D, blah blah blah. It was fair priced at the time I bought it, I think the price hasn't come down much since then, which puzzles me.
I really wasn't expecting anything less, but a full keyboard. How else would it be easier to quickly type urls or search words?
I remember the time when I had to click arrow up/down until I get a letter I wanted, then arrow right, repeat until I typed a full word. This is useful, resistant and you don't have to look down to see what you're typing. If that's not the case of what you wanted, you can control the TV with your Android phone and/or your iPhone.
The biggest fail, was Google taking a year to allow app installation and the networks blocking access to the device on their pages (CBS, Hulu, etc). I have this TV, and EVERYONE in my family that plays with it for 5 minutes, wants one.
Add networks as well. GoogleTV was a really neat idea but besides your nominees, many others help sabotaging it:
Hulu, denying access (In part, also thanks to Adobe that allowed Hulu to block the bypass of changing user agent).
Networks, that also placed locks to flash running from GoogleTvs.
Google, taking 1 year to provide a supposedly update to install apps.
Sony (I guess Logitech as well) for locking down the console.
It's sad that a neat idea can be thrown away and bad mouthed because of many factors. And failing to give what the customer wanted, instead what the providers desired.
I see it coming as an Android/iOS device, there are two TV apps, the paid one and the free one. The paid one uses a subscription service, and the free one runs with obnoxious admob ads on the screen.
I.e. you pay one way or another.
Well, you're not going to ask Amazon, right?
I mean, if you were to survey the Apple store for the hottest sell this holiday it certainly won't be Dells, Kindles, Nooks or Samsungs. So who to believe?
I was intending to express that small population groups should be heard (not going down to the granularity of individuals), but unfortunately you pointed out a great defect, and that is when a single small population group is not the one heard, but also the one controlling the whole deal.
No, he's not. That's just part of the question but as you showed, the slashdot reader is obviously biased. The headline clearly includes Win8 and iOS.
I'm assuming the question is if you want all the OS to become the average user OS where you click big buttons instead of the extreme power user where you preferably type most of your commands and tend to be more tech savvy.
And as the GP asked, I wonder as well, if this is the proper target audience for such question, particularly when I clearly hate limiting interfaces, but many people have found that iOS with all it's limitations to the user provides them with what they need.
I think my asteroids game in my Atari 2600 console had prettier asteroid pictures. But perhaps I've become so used to high resolution pictures :)
It's not that people are stupid, it's that people may not have a complete education in given subjects.
That, and the fact that many believe they know the subject without knowing makes the perfect reason for the "wouldn't work".
This reasoning, however, doesn't imply that the opinions of many shouldn't be listened and taken into account for legislation (based on some quorum that is). Overall, I'd assume that respecting the X% of the population (where X is a fairly low number) should be a goal for the government.
Then again, I don't know about the topic and I'm talking about it, so most likely I'm making some sort of mistake.
Poor creatures. They provide minimum interest on saving accounts, they charge for about anything and they want to charge fees for using the cards.
I signed up for an account at INGDirect. They used to pay the best interest rate and not charge a dime for basic bank functionality. Now I realize my interest rate went dramatically down, it's still not down to the point of my other banks and yet, they don't charge me for the stuff.
Something is not working right with BoA approach that they need to look into. Mainly, I think is the "we want lots of money from anyone willing to give" mentality.
Add to that they are often free with contact and you get these poorly made phones ending up in the abusive little hands of children.
I assume you meant "Contract". And here's a point: people that didn't pay anything for them will also tend to abuse the devices even more and not care about them.
When something costs more, you tend to take better care of it. I paid nothing for my Samsung Galaxy S, and I tend not to care that much if it falls. I hit it, I drop it, and if it breaks it's probably because it was abused. Afterwards, I know many people will go to their carrier and lie about what happened. Have you noticed the humidity sensors in all new phones that detect when the phone was wet? Well, that's to tell if you're telling lies when you take your device to support.
I haven't tried Siri. I put Iris, but I don't know how it this more useful than the Google gadget on my android with the microphone on it. I click the microphone and say "navigate to -place-" or "drive to -place-" or "call -someone (number/contact/place)" and the phone does it.
If the whole thing is, perhaps, that Siri replies back using Text-to-speech, I'm not impressed. If it's about understanding natural language, I've been making my searches more "natural" on Google, and seem to be working fine. I'll have to check it, but so far I don't see the significant advantage.
Perhaps someone can enlighten some users here that haven't understood the whole drama about Siri?
Which makes me think, why there are plenty more mosquitoes in warm weather places? and why they pile up near the hot incandescent bulbs?
There are companies charging money out of using Google Maps. Why should they get a free ride on Google's servers? I have written API's for my use and I certainly won't go above the limit, just the same way I won't go above the mailbox limit they set for my free Gmail account.
If you need more, you pay more, the question is where is going to stop, you may ask the ISP/carriers/airlines/etc...
No, but I didn't write a story/blog and/or submitted it. To explain my sarcasm, since there's no concrete evidence of time travel so far (as you clearly appear to understand), I don't see the reason of writing such articles.
So unless something happens, like a T-800 knocking on Bill's door to force him to buy it (and we'll not know). This type of speculation seems like a waste of time.
I've seen that I can get an iPhone 3Gs for free (on Apple's website). Isn't it 2 years old? At my house, we got an HTC Aria and a Samsung Galaxy S for free, about 4 months after release.
Samsung will keep flooding the market with devices that can reach the masses, with no care for exclusivity contracts with carriers. Their goals are just plain different from Apple's.
As you said, it's probably a market strategy. Every vendor focuses on certain companies/universities to sell their products. The one I worked for (what I guess is a 2nd-tier ranked university) received a lot of discounts depending on the vendors, and used to get lots of Intel based processor CPUs. Perhaps AMD is targeting more aggressively Tier 1 universities, while others take a wider range. That's why I asked.
Of course many are interested in seeing their products advertised at top universities, while others are covering a wider spectrum of customers. I'm wondering if anyone else here has more insight.
Why else do Universities almost exclusively use AMD processors in their clusters for cutting edge research
[citation needed]
Not that I question your argument, but I want to see you backing up your claims. Last time I checked, that was not the case.
Perhaps this is misunderstood. Nothing much happens when people complains, until something is done. This phrase claims actions... not whining.
You silly, this is not for Apple devices. This is for banks' doors.
"Occup..." -BOING/CRASH!-
There is no question. Some Samsung models will come out to the market at a more affordable price than an iPhone. And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.
So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.
Or they wanted to know if the US was hiding something and mandating other countries while not being an example. It all depends on perspective.
Ask Continental, I don't know how do they manage to make the seats so uncomfortable to everyone without increasing something else. Sounds like chaos theory.
I don't think is a matter of where do you park it, but how do you divert the whole thing. Is it better to drill a hole and send it somewhere you know or wait for it to explode and evacuate all the surroundings and deal with the randomness of the event?