Problem is, unless I'm mistaken, it is known to often cause serious lockups. As in pull out the battery type. But if I'm mistaken then great. Time to hit Google I guess.
Yeah I know that there are quite a few die hard physical keyboard folks out there, especially in the biz world. Clearly thats a key market for anybody. I think my beef was more to do with browsing the web in landscape mode. You either have to learn to type sideways with the keyboard out, or rotate the phone, type, and rotate it back. The option to pull up a software keyboard would be simple to implement and please everyone if it was optional. Personally I wish they had offered 2 models, the current Pre3 and a slightly thinner one without the hardware keyboard- after years of iPhone I would likely go for the smaller one.
One of the (relatively) few U.S. users of the Pre3 here. First WebOS device I owned, though a Touchpad came only weeks later. Great system as a whole. The hardware on the Pre3 is finally up to snuff after a long history of issues like he ones you described. Other than a frustrating unwillingness by HP to provide a software keyboard when in portrait mode, the whole package finally feels like something competitive with the big 2. After playing with WebOS phones for a few years I really think the poor hardware, and unwillingness to offer a non-hardware keyboard model was a big mistake. That said, despite the much improved battery life, the Pre3 is still noticeably quicker to drain than the (broken) iPhone 4 it replaced. If you like the platform and get a chance its a great phone, and with modern specs it could last you a few good years. Assuming apps aren't a big pull for you of course. I bought mine because of broke my iPhone, but didn't qualify for an upgrade. While I really think the interface is the best out there, I will be the first to admit it will likely be retired in a year or so for an iPhone 5 or perhaps and Android something. But that depends on HP and their support as provided by the App Catalogue. Still considering it has great specs and I got it for $140 without contract I'm really glad I went WebOS. If HP or somebody gets a real ecosystem going, and offers a range of models I would likely not jump ship in the future. But I don't hold out much faith sadly.
Wow, that must be the most insightful, unbiased post I've read on Slashdot in a long time. The usual black and white thinking I see on here is so immature.
Umm... other than Obama, who is somewhat centrist, who controls the rest of Washington-- including the Supreme Court? Right-wingers. Heck most of them would tell you that (with pride), well except the Obama part. To most of the world calling Obama a centrist is kinda pushing it even, perhaps right leaning centrist would be a better definition? As for real liberal/lefties I'd say Dennis Kucinich is one of the few that springs to mind. The US has always been a pretty right-wing conservative country. I say this as a left-wing American because I think its pretty much the agreed upon reality from the perspective of the vast majority civilized society. Not that its a bad thing per se-- its our right to govern as we want. But lets not pretend that we live in a leftist society, or under some liberal government.
Here you have 6 months to start paying, job or not. You can apply for a deferment, but even then its only another 6 months. They don't care what you are getting paid even if you are lucky enough to have a job at that point. As for the rates, the are fairly low for government loans, but private loans are often not much better than a credit card. The system is an absolute travesty.
I really wish people like you (sorry to pick on you!) would stop pretending that all the millions and millions of users of Apple products are mindless fanboys. Its a red-herring and suggests that you have issues with anybody who could possibly chose a different tool than you. To the point where you would rather just dismiss them/us as fools right off. Listen, I'm a Mac user, I have an iPhone (3G original), but I also bought an HP Touchpad. How did I escape the RDF and chose a competing product over Apple's iPad? Very simple- better tool. In this case liked the web browsing of a tablet, but there is no way in hell I was going to spend enough to buy an iPad. Apple simply didn't offer me a competitive product so I went with somebody else. I'll be the first to admit I like OS X, and so I have a fondness for it's derivative in iOS, but if something I liked better came along, or at a better price, I would totally give it a look- and I do at every upgrade cycle. This kind of reasoned happens among customers of many products you personal dislike. But it doesn't make them wrong in their situation. I for instance don't drop 2500USD for gaming friendly MacPro. Not when a 600 dollar do it myself PC is a way better path. Now if the MacPro was only $100 more then I might reconsider, but that's my point. Preference or comfort with a product or line is only one of the many factors I and most Apple customers consider when they buy. I think if you actually spoke with many non-online techsite reading Apple users you would find that they are quite diverse in their rational.Many simply have a very specific reason for using a Mac, perhaps its malware removal hassle, perhaps its workplace training/standardization on a Mac, or even a piece of Mac only software they can't live without. The reasons are as varied as why peoeple choose different cars or foods- a mixture of choice, and a natural uncultish preference for certain aspects of that product over the others. I have never once forced myself to like a product out of duty to the company or even to excuse my mistake in buying it, and I think most Apple users are in the same boat. No doubt there are members of the cult, whenever I make a constructive criticism of Apple stuff there is usually at least one rabid defender of the company against any reason. Funny I see that with brands of soda, cars, other operating systems, and trivialities like Katsup brands. But ya know what? That die hard loonies are the fringe voice and not taken seriously by anyone but themselves. Please for the love of honest discussion learn to accept that different people have different computing needs, workflow styles, and background familiarity. When any discussion starts out with one side holding the premise that the otherside is a pack of morons there just isn't anywhere to go from there. Who knows, maybe not reading that misinformed stereotype every time Apple comes up might even get the cultists to lower their defenses and victim mentality for a moment and consider the many reasonable and rational reasons why Apple might not be the best fit for everybody. Sorry to pick on you, but I just can't stand hearing that unfounded and endlessly repeated belief.
You must be joking. What would you call the patent shakedown of Android vendors then? Ya know, the scam that looks to net MS more than their own mobile platform will next year? Oh yeah MS has really changed... tactics- and that's about it.
Hollywood has made it their goal to privatize everything from "Seal Team 6"- registered by Disney, to our fairy tales like Snow White. Stealing from the public domain and threatening everybody not in the club is nothing new for them. I have little doubt that the bean counters at Fox known damn well that most courts in the land will back their insane claim, assuming the small developer can even afford to fight the battle.
Seems to me it is impossible to measure the lost sales caused by their insane always-on DRM system. PC gamers are a fairly savvy crowd, so I doubt its insignificant. Just seeing your games less torrented doesn't say shit about potential lost sales.
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Same here on OS X Lion newest Chrome. Dozens of open windows and slow loading. Not impressed- especially since we all know HTML5 can do way better.
Sometimes I wonder if the reason the media goes after video games has something to do with the fact that they are often in direct competition with each other for the (mostly) finite number of media consumption hours of the average person. I seem to remember the media, at least in the US, seemed to spend an endless time demonizing the internet and focusing on worst-case scenarios back of ID theft, scams, and viruses in the late 90's when they still thought they might snuff it out. I wonder in newspapers and radio engaged in these same tactics in against radio and TV when they were the up and comers?
Just because Netflix doesn't offer Canadians a wide range of streaming options doesn't really mean people in the US should be trilled with a 60% price increase.
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Obama is bad, but to equate him the the previous dumbass-in-chief is lunacy.
I think they mean sales wise, not functionality wise.
Problem is, unless I'm mistaken, it is known to often cause serious lockups. As in pull out the battery type. But if I'm mistaken then great. Time to hit Google I guess.
Yeah I know that there are quite a few die hard physical keyboard folks out there, especially in the biz world. Clearly thats a key market for anybody. I think my beef was more to do with browsing the web in landscape mode. You either have to learn to type sideways with the keyboard out, or rotate the phone, type, and rotate it back. The option to pull up a software keyboard would be simple to implement and please everyone if it was optional. Personally I wish they had offered 2 models, the current Pre3 and a slightly thinner one without the hardware keyboard- after years of iPhone I would likely go for the smaller one.
One of the (relatively) few U.S. users of the Pre3 here. First WebOS device I owned, though a Touchpad came only weeks later. Great system as a whole. The hardware on the Pre3 is finally up to snuff after a long history of issues like he ones you described. Other than a frustrating unwillingness by HP to provide a software keyboard when in portrait mode, the whole package finally feels like something competitive with the big 2. After playing with WebOS phones for a few years I really think the poor hardware, and unwillingness to offer a non-hardware keyboard model was a big mistake. That said, despite the much improved battery life, the Pre3 is still noticeably quicker to drain than the (broken) iPhone 4 it replaced. If you like the platform and get a chance its a great phone, and with modern specs it could last you a few good years. Assuming apps aren't a big pull for you of course. I bought mine because of broke my iPhone, but didn't qualify for an upgrade. While I really think the interface is the best out there, I will be the first to admit it will likely be retired in a year or so for an iPhone 5 or perhaps and Android something. But that depends on HP and their support as provided by the App Catalogue. Still considering it has great specs and I got it for $140 without contract I'm really glad I went WebOS. If HP or somebody gets a real ecosystem going, and offers a range of models I would likely not jump ship in the future. But I don't hold out much faith sadly.
The death of mobile Flash, and the rumor of the same for Silverlight all in one day? The web is going to be a far better place in the future.
Wow, that must be the most insightful, unbiased post I've read on Slashdot in a long time. The usual black and white thinking I see on here is so immature.
Nice to see another WebOs guy (I think, or perhaps Symbian?) Same issues as you. And despite having Flash for WebOS, I'm still glad to see it die.
I read this on my Touchpad and almost died. Bravo sir!
Little athiests? Sorry but that kinda proves your an asshole. And you call out Coyne for using ad hominem attacks?
Umm... other than Obama, who is somewhat centrist, who controls the rest of Washington-- including the Supreme Court? Right-wingers. Heck most of them would tell you that (with pride), well except the Obama part. To most of the world calling Obama a centrist is kinda pushing it even, perhaps right leaning centrist would be a better definition? As for real liberal/lefties I'd say Dennis Kucinich is one of the few that springs to mind. The US has always been a pretty right-wing conservative country. I say this as a left-wing American because I think its pretty much the agreed upon reality from the perspective of the vast majority civilized society. Not that its a bad thing per se-- its our right to govern as we want. But lets not pretend that we live in a leftist society, or under some liberal government.
Here you have 6 months to start paying, job or not. You can apply for a deferment, but even then its only another 6 months. They don't care what you are getting paid even if you are lucky enough to have a job at that point. As for the rates, the are fairly low for government loans, but private loans are often not much better than a credit card. The system is an absolute travesty.
In any other situation I would mod a post like this troll, but jesus man you pretty much nailed it.
I really wish people like you (sorry to pick on you!) would stop pretending that all the millions and millions of users of Apple products are mindless fanboys. Its a red-herring and suggests that you have issues with anybody who could possibly chose a different tool than you. To the point where you would rather just dismiss them/us as fools right off. Listen, I'm a Mac user, I have an iPhone (3G original), but I also bought an HP Touchpad. How did I escape the RDF and chose a competing product over Apple's iPad? Very simple- better tool. In this case liked the web browsing of a tablet, but there is no way in hell I was going to spend enough to buy an iPad. Apple simply didn't offer me a competitive product so I went with somebody else. I'll be the first to admit I like OS X, and so I have a fondness for it's derivative in iOS, but if something I liked better came along, or at a better price, I would totally give it a look- and I do at every upgrade cycle. This kind of reasoned happens among customers of many products you personal dislike. But it doesn't make them wrong in their situation. I for instance don't drop 2500USD for gaming friendly MacPro. Not when a 600 dollar do it myself PC is a way better path. Now if the MacPro was only $100 more then I might reconsider, but that's my point. Preference or comfort with a product or line is only one of the many factors I and most Apple customers consider when they buy. I think if you actually spoke with many non-online techsite reading Apple users you would find that they are quite diverse in their rational.Many simply have a very specific reason for using a Mac, perhaps its malware removal hassle, perhaps its workplace training/standardization on a Mac, or even a piece of Mac only software they can't live without. The reasons are as varied as why peoeple choose different cars or foods- a mixture of choice, and a natural uncultish preference for certain aspects of that product over the others. I have never once forced myself to like a product out of duty to the company or even to excuse my mistake in buying it, and I think most Apple users are in the same boat. No doubt there are members of the cult, whenever I make a constructive criticism of Apple stuff there is usually at least one rabid defender of the company against any reason. Funny I see that with brands of soda, cars, other operating systems, and trivialities like Katsup brands. But ya know what? That die hard loonies are the fringe voice and not taken seriously by anyone but themselves. Please for the love of honest discussion learn to accept that different people have different computing needs, workflow styles, and background familiarity. When any discussion starts out with one side holding the premise that the otherside is a pack of morons there just isn't anywhere to go from there. Who knows, maybe not reading that misinformed stereotype every time Apple comes up might even get the cultists to lower their defenses and victim mentality for a moment and consider the many reasonable and rational reasons why Apple might not be the best fit for everybody. Sorry to pick on you, but I just can't stand hearing that unfounded and endlessly repeated belief.
Say what you will, but Steve always seemed to know what was coming up next. Inventor or not, that is a skill few posses. RIP Steven.
Yes they did share RAM which was nifty. I do believe they had separate video memory though.
You must be joking. What would you call the patent shakedown of Android vendors then? Ya know, the scam that looks to net MS more than their own mobile platform will next year? Oh yeah MS has really changed... tactics- and that's about it.
Well put. 'Nuff said.
but who cares? This is hardly an original idea or concept.
Hollywood has made it their goal to privatize everything from "Seal Team 6"- registered by Disney, to our fairy tales like Snow White. Stealing from the public domain and threatening everybody not in the club is nothing new for them. I have little doubt that the bean counters at Fox known damn well that most courts in the land will back their insane claim, assuming the small developer can even afford to fight the battle.
Seems to me it is impossible to measure the lost sales caused by their insane always-on DRM system. PC gamers are a fairly savvy crowd, so I doubt its insignificant. Just seeing your games less torrented doesn't say shit about potential lost sales.
Same here on OS X Lion newest Chrome. Dozens of open windows and slow loading. Not impressed- especially since we all know HTML5 can do way better.
Sometimes I wonder if the reason the media goes after video games has something to do with the fact that they are often in direct competition with each other for the (mostly) finite number of media consumption hours of the average person. I seem to remember the media, at least in the US, seemed to spend an endless time demonizing the internet and focusing on worst-case scenarios back of ID theft, scams, and viruses in the late 90's when they still thought they might snuff it out. I wonder in newspapers and radio engaged in these same tactics in against radio and TV when they were the up and comers?
Or as I think the GP was suggesting, just leave it at home or a friends house. No officer, I never left home that night.
Just because Netflix doesn't offer Canadians a wide range of streaming options doesn't really mean people in the US should be trilled with a 60% price increase.