There is a free program called David that allows you to use a webcam, laser level, and some markers for reference to generate a 3d model. You have to be patient and make quite a few passes with the laser but the reults are pretty good.
Now that we know that "peer review" is done by experts in the same field and it has been established that Wikipedia is NOT peer reviewed, how does Wikipedia block experts from viewing articles in their field and why would it purposefully limit its credibility in that way?
Hey, dumbass, THIS is flamebait, not what I just posted, asshole! Am I allowed to speak here without someone using their mod points to try to censor me?
If you were a good mod, you'd mod him flamebait for "cock sucking", "ass-licking", and "chumps". If you can substitute brands and still feel slightly offended, it is probably flamebait.
Yes, I did mean to reply to you. I said it was hard to quantify ease-of-use, you said it isn't hard, I asked you to quantify some simple things and now you are avoiding it. From an everyday point of view, copy/paste isn't really as important as you make it out to be. I haven't had internet access except on my iPhone and I've done just fine without copy/paste. This whole conversation I've been typing on my iPhone.
Let me refine my calculator arguement. The iPhone's calculator is better because it works just like a real calculator. It may only currently work like a $10 calculator, but it still works like a real calculator. Very few phones have calculators that work as well and even fewer will be better once 2.0 comes out. How many phones come with a scientific calculator built it? I've never seen one.
Would you like another example? I've stopped using my fully-functional and feature-rich PDA simply because the iPhone is so much easier to use. I occasionally miss Flash but, then again, most websites with Flash wouldn't work anyways.
If UI is easy to quantify, please tell me exactly how the iphone's iPod interface is superior to most phones. I want hard numbers. How many units is coverflow worth? How many units is the customizable bar at the bottom of the screen worth? Don't forget the page transitions!
I used almost the whole range of features on my old phone but I hated it. It was annoying to have to scroll through 5 menus to send someone else a file. The calculator didn't have a memory function. I had to scroll through most of the links on a webpage just to get to the one I wanted. The media player could only play mp3s up to 192kbps and could only have 100 songs in its playlist. The earbuds required a special adapter to fit in the charging plug so I couldn't plug my phone in and listen to music. The phone had tons of features but they were a PITA to use.
The problem that you are seeing but failing to understand is that it is hard to quantify the interface's ease of use. A RAZR has a calculator that probably does the same things as the iPhone calculator but it gets used much less because it is harder to get to and harder to use. I had a regular phone before my iPhone and I rarely used anything outside of SMS/mms and calling because it was a pain in the ass. Now, I use many of the features on my iphone that were also on my old phone simply because they are very easy to access and very easy to use. I probably use 95%of the iphone's features every week. I never used more than half the features of my old phones in a month.
The SDK will be released in much less than a month and, if you watched the keynote, you've seen how quickly programs can be written. In one month, there will be a boatload of quality programs.
The US should really have much more stringing inspections of container shipping. We can send a man to the moon but not inspect cargo. right? Sending a man to the moon is much easier than inspecting millions of cargo containers on a frequent basis without significantly increasing shipping time.
Oops, I forgot to mention that my computer is a 5 year old laptop that was only middle-of-the-line when I got it. It has a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with a max of 1GB RAM and a 8X/2X/1X DVD-RW drive. It has served me well.
I'm not sure what rock he's been living under, but Linux has been a lot easier to install than windows for ages. You clearly have not installed Vista. I did an upgrade install and it took hours and left things in a mess. I formatted the drive and started with a fresh install. I started it right before I went to bed, expecting it to take hours like the upgrade, but it was ready to set up user profiles in 30 minutes. Ubuntu asked all the same questions when I installed it, except for the key. I wouldn't consider being asked one less question that doesn't even require thinking to be "a lot easier". In fact, the partitioning part always freaks me out a bit.
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I have one mod point left but I can't figure out if you are trying to be funny or if you just don't know how satellite photography works.
That's the one. I don't remember it being shareware, though. I downloaded it a long time ago. I'll dig it up and see if the shareware part is new.
There is a free program called David that allows you to use a webcam, laser level, and some markers for reference to generate a 3d model. You have to be patient and make quite a few passes with the laser but the reults are pretty good.
Now that we know that "peer review" is done by experts in the same field and it has been established that Wikipedia is NOT peer reviewed, how does Wikipedia block experts from viewing articles in their field and why would it purposefully limit its credibility in that way?
Hey, dumbass, THIS is flamebait, not what I just posted, asshole! Am I allowed to speak here without someone using their mod points to try to censor me?
If you were a good mod, you'd mod him flamebait for "cock sucking", "ass-licking", and "chumps". If you can substitute brands and still feel slightly offended, it is probably flamebait.
Why would you want to carry around a number pad? That seems to be close to the epitome of inconvenience.
Yes, I did mean to reply to you. I said it was hard to quantify ease-of-use, you said it isn't hard, I asked you to quantify some simple things and now you are avoiding it. From an everyday point of view, copy/paste isn't really as important as you make it out to be. I haven't had internet access except on my iPhone and I've done just fine without copy/paste. This whole conversation I've been typing on my iPhone.
Let me refine my calculator arguement. The iPhone's calculator is better because it works just like a real calculator. It may only currently work like a $10 calculator, but it still works like a real calculator. Very few phones have calculators that work as well and even fewer will be better once 2.0 comes out. How many phones come with a scientific calculator built it? I've never seen one.
Would you like another example? I've stopped using my fully-functional and feature-rich PDA simply because the iPhone is so much easier to use. I occasionally miss Flash but, then again, most websites with Flash wouldn't work anyways.
If UI is easy to quantify, please tell me exactly how the iphone's iPod interface is superior to most phones. I want hard numbers. How many units is coverflow worth? How many units is the customizable bar at the bottom of the screen worth? Don't forget the page transitions!
I used almost the whole range of features on my old phone but I hated it. It was annoying to have to scroll through 5 menus to send someone else a file. The calculator didn't have a memory function. I had to scroll through most of the links on a webpage just to get to the one I wanted. The media player could only play mp3s up to 192kbps and could only have 100 songs in its playlist. The earbuds required a special adapter to fit in the charging plug so I couldn't plug my phone in and listen to music. The phone had tons of features but they were a PITA to use.
The problem that you are seeing but failing to understand is that it is hard to quantify the interface's ease of use. A RAZR has a calculator that probably does the same things as the iPhone calculator but it gets used much less because it is harder to get to and harder to use. I had a regular phone before my iPhone and I rarely used anything outside of SMS/mms and calling because it was a pain in the ass. Now, I use many of the features on my iphone that were also on my old phone simply because they are very easy to access and very easy to use. I probably use 95%of the iphone's features every week. I never used more than half the features of my old phones in a month.
I don't need any help but the mod that wasted all his points on us does.
A figure of speech?
Your price comparison is only fair if you are getting an iPhone in addition to the cellphone you probably already have.
You can't really compare functionality using a list of features.
Why didn't you say that in the beginning instead of being a smartass?
The person you replied to wasn't talking about only US carriers so your statement doesn't make sense.
What did you expect from a live presentation? It was boring enough without going into every single detail!
The iPhone is carried in more than just the US. It is also about to be carried all over the world.
You like strawmen, don't you? Those weren't strawmen, they were rhetorical questions and valid points to consider. That doesn't make them strawmen.
The SDK will be released in much less than a month and, if you watched the keynote, you've seen how quickly programs can be written. In one month, there will be a boatload of quality programs.
Oops, I forgot to mention that my computer is a 5 year old laptop that was only middle-of-the-line when I got it. It has a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with a max of 1GB RAM and a 8X/2X/1X DVD-RW drive. It has served me well.
Your post is so full of fail it almost made my screen explode!