I had a PDF on my phone i jsut downloaded, i wanted to view it on my non cellular ipad. they both have wifi, i should be able to transfer anything between them without need of a third party, be it cloud, wifi AP, etc. They should be able to effortlessly talk to each other with no outside influence at all. They are 100% technically capable of this behavior. It may come as a surprise to you, but not all of us relish the idea of filtering our digital life thorugh the cloud unecessarily. I shouldnt have to be connected to the internet to share a pdf between 2 wifi enable computers, period.
Im so tired of people saying 'X storage is enough' when talking about consumer grade stuff and accepting the lower grade limit. I want BUCKETS of storage on mobile. I want a music player that can hold weeks of lossless audio that can fit in my pocket. I want a pocket DVR that can hold weeks of video. 64 GB is a JOKE when it costs $1/GB RETAIL. We are purposefully being held back from this to force us into the cloud model.
The problem is the choices are abiguous at best and the consequences are hard to see. Itunes is an enigma for the normal user, and a prison for the initiated. It should be as simple as hooking my friends iDevice to my computer and dragging the song over. Hell there is no native way to share data between an iphone and an ipad in the field and you think this state of affairs is totally ok?
In case you havent noticed, there are store links all the way down the the individual song level, on stuff you already own. the entire music player is infested with 'buy now'. I love e-commerce, but im sick of advertising in EVERYTHING.
HIPAA says LOL. We have for a very long time no applied strict privacy to records we deem very sensitive. There is no reason we cant extend that model, if necessary. At the end of the day, it is the government that says what companies can do with data of any kind, and last i chcked WE were the government..
Reasoanble expectation of privacy does not require diligence of that nature. If i go into a bathroom stall with no door on it, i am still afforded a reasonable expectation of privacy. Comms should be no different.
You can add an RTC trivially and your last line is spot on, it is designed and marketed for people that arent you. Its meant as a bridge to get people to where you are.
By pay extra what you really mean is the 'storage tax' we are currently experiencing from the manufacturers. The price difference for MS between 64 and 128 is negligible enough to call them out for breaking out pricing in this manner.
Here is the rub. A touchscreen on a desktop is a nice addition, but it has cost and will be used only in limited ways. It cant really be considered a primary input for very long. I get what you are saying, but price and absolute usefullness are still against you. This will change as time goes on.
I want to see the end. You can call it emotional, i call it justice. Watching MS disintegrate is like watchin Barad'dur fall. All we are waiting for now is the eye to wink out.
Why in the fuck would they use DisplayPort??? Its the red-headed step-child of video interfaces. It means 90% of people are going to have to use a stupid adapter dongle.
15-20 GB out of 64GB(pre-formatted size) is UNACCEPTABLE. how do you defend that? the 64 GB model should not even exist at those price points and shows MS' desperation in keeping costs down.
Wii U will not be doing 1080p 60HZ on Batman, no fuckin way. Also, there is no way the Wii U version is anywhere NEAR the PC version with PhysX and 3D. Wii U is a joke and i firmly beleive nintendo is in serious trouble.
Consoles arent about being inventive, its about locking your users in and abusing them. They dont WANT to sell upgrades in hardware, they want to sell you software on old hardware that they completely control.
They can say it all they want, but as long as im not perpetrating a fraud, the logo is fair game, now matter how much they dont like it. Further, it is not their permission to grant or deny, as the entirety of their work is owned by the American Public, period. Technically, they have no standing to wall it off. Practically, is another matter. It leaves the realm of Truth and enters the realm of 'Because we said so' .
The entire idea of revenge in a thermonuclear exchange is what is stupid. The priority should be PREVENTION, not lobbing nukes with our dying breath. The only winning move is not to play.
Exactly. When i know where i am, the never use the GPS, but its nice that if i do get lost, i can flip on the device and tell it 'take me home' and after a proper logic check, off we go.
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I had a PDF on my phone i jsut downloaded, i wanted to view it on my non cellular ipad. they both have wifi, i should be able to transfer anything between them without need of a third party, be it cloud, wifi AP, etc. They should be able to effortlessly talk to each other with no outside influence at all. They are 100% technically capable of this behavior. It may come as a surprise to you, but not all of us relish the idea of filtering our digital life thorugh the cloud unecessarily. I shouldnt have to be connected to the internet to share a pdf between 2 wifi enable computers, period.
Im so tired of people saying 'X storage is enough' when talking about consumer grade stuff and accepting the lower grade limit. I want BUCKETS of storage on mobile. I want a music player that can hold weeks of lossless audio that can fit in my pocket. I want a pocket DVR that can hold weeks of video. 64 GB is a JOKE when it costs $1/GB RETAIL. We are purposefully being held back from this to force us into the cloud model.
Wait, so you cant read ebooks sold on itunes on a workstation? at all?
The problem is the choices are abiguous at best and the consequences are hard to see. Itunes is an enigma for the normal user, and a prison for the initiated. It should be as simple as hooking my friends iDevice to my computer and dragging the song over. Hell there is no native way to share data between an iphone and an ipad in the field and you think this state of affairs is totally ok?
Everything but music is still wholly infested with DRM. They dont just sell music on iTunes.....
There is no difference except in your head.
In case you havent noticed, there are store links all the way down the the individual song level, on stuff you already own. the entire music player is infested with 'buy now'. I love e-commerce, but im sick of advertising in EVERYTHING.
A million times this, play songs and get the fuck out of the way.
HIPAA says LOL. We have for a very long time no applied strict privacy to records we deem very sensitive. There is no reason we cant extend that model, if necessary. At the end of the day, it is the government that says what companies can do with data of any kind, and last i chcked WE were the government..
Reasoanble expectation of privacy does not require diligence of that nature. If i go into a bathroom stall with no door on it, i am still afforded a reasonable expectation of privacy. Comms should be no different.
You can add an RTC trivially and your last line is spot on, it is designed and marketed for people that arent you. Its meant as a bridge to get people to where you are.
damn it, dont let your logic cloud my hatred for dongles!
By pay extra what you really mean is the 'storage tax' we are currently experiencing from the manufacturers. The price difference for MS between 64 and 128 is negligible enough to call them out for breaking out pricing in this manner.
Here is the rub. A touchscreen on a desktop is a nice addition, but it has cost and will be used only in limited ways. It cant really be considered a primary input for very long. I get what you are saying, but price and absolute usefullness are still against you. This will change as time goes on.
Every normal consumer on the planet is going to compare it to tablets. Thats the discussion.
I want to see the end. You can call it emotional, i call it justice. Watching MS disintegrate is like watchin Barad'dur fall. All we are waiting for now is the eye to wink out.
Why in the fuck would they use DisplayPort??? Its the red-headed step-child of video interfaces. It means 90% of people are going to have to use a stupid adapter dongle.
15-20 GB out of 64GB(pre-formatted size) is UNACCEPTABLE. how do you defend that? the 64 GB model should not even exist at those price points and shows MS' desperation in keeping costs down.
Wii U will not be doing 1080p 60HZ on Batman, no fuckin way. Also, there is no way the Wii U version is anywhere NEAR the PC version with PhysX and 3D. Wii U is a joke and i firmly beleive nintendo is in serious trouble.
Consoles arent about being inventive, its about locking your users in and abusing them. They dont WANT to sell upgrades in hardware, they want to sell you software on old hardware that they completely control.
They can say it all they want, but as long as im not perpetrating a fraud, the logo is fair game, now matter how much they dont like it. Further, it is not their permission to grant or deny, as the entirety of their work is owned by the American Public, period. Technically, they have no standing to wall it off. Practically, is another matter. It leaves the realm of Truth and enters the realm of 'Because we said so' .
Since all copyrights generated by NASA belong to the American Public, i would say no.
The entire idea of revenge in a thermonuclear exchange is what is stupid. The priority should be PREVENTION, not lobbing nukes with our dying breath. The only winning move is not to play.
Until you have a friend named DeeDee in the car.
Exactly. When i know where i am, the never use the GPS, but its nice that if i do get lost, i can flip on the device and tell it 'take me home' and after a proper logic check, off we go.