Kindle Fire HD isn't especially cheap or well-specced for its' price. For a little more, you can support the idea that Android users DO want devices not laden with locked bootloaders, operating systems, forced UI makeovers, etc. with a Nexus 7.
Moreover, the Kindle has no GPS. It's mind-boggling that Amazon decided to save a few cents and not include a GPS-capable chip in the Kindle.
Yeah, the server may be impressive by some people's standards, but it's going to be outclassed by newer / faster machines.
It is outclassed, but not its power supply: more and more of the PSUs currently in use have cheap, shitty Chinese-made capacitors that will last 6m-1year and then die. That kind of shit did not happen with old Sun gear. In fact, Sun gear used to be rock solid, like some sort of mainframe.
I think the Surface is a terrible device, but It will be interesting to see reaction to this vs reaction to the Nexus ordering issues.
The same could definitely be true for the Nexus 4, however, to me it seems slightly more likely that this time Google just royally f-ed up their estimates. After all, they didn't screw up with the Nexus 7, while they screwed up slightly less with the Nexus 10.
I think there's a measure of ineptness responsible for the Nexus 4 debacle.
VP of marketing: we have several suggestions for the product name CEO: it doesn't really matter, the sale is a shoe-in. We could call it anything we want. Product manager: O RLY!?
Until the Android ecosystem can handle an issue as basic as providing it's users with OS and security updates, Android is not ahead at all.
I have an Android 2.3 phone (Galaxy Gio) and even that "ancient" version of Android has features that iOS has still to implement to this day. Citation needed? Here you go.
In all seriousness, what I want the iPhone to do that Android does is be able to control the hardware from a quick access screen - ie, turn the wifi or bluetooth on and off quickly without having to use the main settings app. When Apple announced they were bringing the swipe-down-from-top notification centre thing to iOS I really hoped that the ability to add those sorts of things to it would be there, but it seems not.
Since even an old version of Android has a useful feature lacking even from the newest version of iOS... I would say that yes, Android is ahead of iOS. Or better say, iOS is so pathetic, it can't pull ahead even of a fragmented Android ecosystem.
I know, I just extended our inability to recognize sentient life, to lifeforms we might meet in outer space. The gist of my comment is: unless they shoot at us, we don't consider them sentient.
We already have non-human sentient life on our planet - many cetaceans are sentient - but we are utterly unable to recognize it. The only sentient life humans will actually recognize, are the ones that carry bigger guns than ours. Sad but true.
Not always true in my experience. One's enthusiasm for open access scientific publishing changes radically depending on whether you are publishing a paper or trying to access a paper. If you are publishing a paper then you want to have it in the most prestigious vehicle you can get into. It looks better on the CV come tenure or job interview time. For chemistry, say, you want to publish in JACS or JOC. But if I am reading the literature then I curse the bastards who published in JACS and JOC because I might not have free access to those journals.
You are misreading/misinterpreting the point I was trying to make (which may be also my fault). To answer you, I'll just quote another post in this very thread:
All things being equal, I would certainly lean towards using open access journals, simply because I prefer my work to get as much exposure as possible, but all things are not equal.
Researchers don't generally care about their papers being open access or not. They use open access journals because they are easy to get published in (they are mostly 'author pays' publications with very low standards) or because their funder mandates it.
Not true at all. Most researchers (I would say it's a large majority) prefer open-access because of the better exposure of their work, and because of an innate desire to share their science with everybody. There are scientists with views differing from this, but they are, as far as I could see (and I, as a researcher that travels a lot to conferences and does research abroad often, have met a huge number of my colleagues) a small minority.
Not so much for protecting me from "radiation", but to keep battery consumption low: whenever the signal is weak, the phone compensates by increasing transmitting power, draining the battery in the process. If Tawkon warns me of strong transmitting field, I'll keep the conversation short.
If it indeed runs too hot to hold in hand, then no, there is no hyperbole.
Yeah, the imaginary tablet in your mind will perhaps be much better, if and when it exists, but Surface Pro, the product in actual existence, the product this submission is about, is a heavy, overheating piece of shit.
MySQL is rapidly approaching "who cares?" status. Oracle kills another one.
This is the highest-modded post in the thread? A wholly devoid-of-information nihilistic scoff? MySQL 5.6.10 brings a ton of nice features, like online ALTER TABLE. Wouldn't it be nice if there were some actual informative posts on the new MySQL release?
By the way, even as a scoff, your post is pretty weak.
Fuck implication. It was very clearly spelled out in plain English.
Indeed. It takes a special kind of idiot to misunderstand such a simple sentence and concept: given the same design, a CPU clocked at a higher frequency will outperform the one at lower frequency. Super-fucking-simple. NOTHING ELSE WAS STATED OR IMPLIED.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Gio that I'm crazy about: for EUR 122 (no contract) I get a gorgeous albeit smallish AMOLED screen and all the processing power I'll ever need from a phone.
Where do you live and who is your operator? (Finland here.)
I can't for the life of me figure out how you'd mix a keyboard and a touch screen and have that make sense.
Ergonomically, it would suck to have to reach up to your monitor from typing... it would look like hitting the carriage return on an old typewriter or something.:-P
On my desk, my monitor is about a foot or more behind my keyboard, I'd need to lean forward to even touch it.
Either I'm suffering from a large lack of imagination, or all of these people clamoring for a keyboard and a touch screen haven't thought this through. It seems more like you'd get a bad compromise of both.
Let me first be clear: I agree with this. However, all you wrote doesn't still mean that having Android compatibility in ChromeOS wouldn't be a good idea. After all, some Android apps are better suited for phones, others are better (or actually exclusive to) tablets, and this trend is going to continue as Android tablets take ever larger chunks of the tablet market. I can easily imagine companies modifying some of their tablet-centric apps to run well on a keyboard-and-mouse device such as a Chromebook. It really isn't rocket surgery.
Make the manufacturer responsible for recycling the thrown away device and charge an additional tax for that so that it becomes more economical to design the device to last (or be repaired). And extend the mandatory warranty to 5 years for devices that are more expensive than, say, 100EUR...
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If more or all people were so proactive and brave (for a loose definition of bravery, anyway), this in the US would be much better for consumers. For one thing, mobile operators would have saner policies and there would be competition instead of a cartel of internet providers. GM food would be labeled as such and the composition of your food will also be declared (like it is in Europe).
Once again (like in the 80's)Apple was focusing on the "classes" - selling overpriced but stylish tech to those that can afford it, while Commodore et al. sold cheap but functional computers that were purchased by everyone, and brought technology and often education, to the masses.
We are seeing the repeat of this scenario, where Apple sells overpriced but stylish tech (someone wants to challenge me on overpriced? Bring it on, the margins on the iPhone 5 are particularly succulent data) with the iPhones and iPads, and the more well-off are their customers, even according to some research. Enter Android, a free (and opensource) OS that anyone is free to use however they see fit. An deluge of Android-powered devices include smart watches, cameras, mini PCs, consoles, and of course smartphones and tablets. And among the latter two, we see both ultra-expensive ones (Vertu), high-tech ones (Samsung Galaxy S-III, Note II, etc) and... ultra cheap ones, both from known brands such as HTC, and Samsung, and from no-name Chinese companies. The latter is the one that brings tech to the masses, and for this, I am grateful to Android.
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Kindle Fire HD isn't especially cheap or well-specced for its' price. For a little more, you can support the idea that Android users DO want devices not laden with locked bootloaders, operating systems, forced UI makeovers, etc. with a Nexus 7.
Moreover, the Kindle has no GPS. It's mind-boggling that Amazon decided to save a few cents and not include a GPS-capable chip in the Kindle.
Yeah, the server may be impressive by some people's standards, but it's going to be outclassed by newer / faster machines.
It is outclassed, but not its power supply: more and more of the PSUs currently in use have cheap, shitty Chinese-made capacitors that will last 6m-1year and then die. That kind of shit did not happen with old Sun gear. In fact, Sun gear used to be rock solid, like some sort of mainframe.
I think the Surface is a terrible device, but It will be interesting to see reaction to this vs reaction to the Nexus ordering issues.
The same could definitely be true for the Nexus 4, however, to me it seems slightly more likely that this time Google just royally f-ed up their estimates. After all, they didn't screw up with the Nexus 7, while they screwed up slightly less with the Nexus 10.
I think there's a measure of ineptness responsible for the Nexus 4 debacle.
At the pre-launch meeting:
VP of marketing: we have several suggestions for the product name
CEO: it doesn't really matter, the sale is a shoe-in. We could call it anything we want.
Product manager: O RLY!?
There are two things Islamists are allergic to:
YouTube and
Polio vaccination
What app is it?
Also, is it difficult to port from iOS to Android?
Until the Android ecosystem can handle an issue as basic as providing it's users with OS and security updates, Android is not ahead at all.
I have an Android 2.3 phone (Galaxy Gio) and even that "ancient" version of Android has features that iOS has still to implement to this day.
Citation needed? Here you go.
In all seriousness, what I want the iPhone to do that Android does is be able to control the hardware from a quick access screen - ie, turn the wifi or bluetooth on and off quickly without having to use the main settings app. When Apple announced they were bringing the swipe-down-from-top notification centre thing to iOS I really hoped that the ability to add those sorts of things to it would be there, but it seems not.
Since even an old version of Android has a useful feature lacking even from the newest version of iOS... I would say that yes, Android is ahead of iOS. Or better say, iOS is so pathetic, it can't pull ahead even of a fragmented Android ecosystem.
Well, there goes $350 from me?
I was going to upgrade to a nice, shiny new Galaxy S III this Saturday, and get a data plan and everything.
I don't need either, but thought it might be nice to play around with all the cool toys, send IM and Tweets and stuff. Well. Not so nice after all.
Sorry, Samsung! Sorry, T-Mobile! I'm gonna stick with my talk & text plan on a $25 disposable that I fling down a sewer grate.
Marekting people at Samsung, after reading your comment: "Looks like we have yet another challenge in the US marketplace!
I know, I just extended our inability to recognize sentient life, to lifeforms we might meet in outer space. The gist of my comment is: unless they shoot at us, we don't consider them sentient.
We already have non-human sentient life on our planet - many cetaceans are sentient - but we are utterly unable to recognize it. The only sentient life humans will actually recognize, are the ones that carry bigger guns than ours. Sad but true.
They've all moved on to cable TV.
Screw ChromeOS
I want that screen in a shiny, non-Apple laptop and load it with Linux.
Not trolling but 100% serious: that is exactly why Google is reluctant to release it.
Not always true in my experience. One's enthusiasm for open access scientific publishing changes radically depending on whether you are publishing a paper or trying to access a paper. If you are publishing a paper then you want to have it in the most prestigious vehicle you can get into. It looks better on the CV come tenure or job interview time. For chemistry, say, you want to publish in JACS or JOC. But if I am reading the literature then I curse the bastards who published in JACS and JOC because I might not have free access to those journals.
You are misreading/misinterpreting the point I was trying to make (which may be also my fault). To answer you, I'll just quote another post in this very thread:
All things being equal, I would certainly lean towards using open access journals, simply because I prefer my work to get as much exposure as possible, but all things are not equal.
Researchers don't generally care about their papers being open access or not. They use open access journals because they are easy to get published in (they are mostly 'author pays' publications with very low standards) or because their funder mandates it.
Not true at all. Most researchers (I would say it's a large majority) prefer open-access because of the better exposure of their work, and because of an innate desire to share their science with everybody. There are scientists with views differing from this, but they are, as far as I could see (and I, as a researcher that travels a lot to conferences and does research abroad often, have met a huge number of my colleagues) a small minority.
or each and every company that MS has partnered with that's doing decently
I can't think of any, to be honest. Unless you count the ones MS bought outright, but even there, MS managed to turdify the acquired product.
Not so much for protecting me from "radiation", but to keep battery consumption low: whenever the signal is weak, the phone compensates by increasing transmitting power, draining the battery in the process. If Tawkon warns me of strong transmitting field, I'll keep the conversation short.
If it indeed runs too hot to hold in hand, then no, there is no hyperbole.
Yeah, the imaginary tablet in your mind will perhaps be much better, if and when it exists, but Surface Pro, the product in actual existence, the product this submission is about, is a heavy, overheating piece of shit.
TL;DR No hyperbole, Surface pro is crap.
MySQL is rapidly approaching "who cares?" status. Oracle kills another one.
This is the highest-modded post in the thread? A wholly devoid-of-information nihilistic scoff? MySQL 5.6.10 brings a ton of nice features, like online ALTER TABLE. Wouldn't it be nice if there were some actual informative posts on the new MySQL release?
By the way, even as a scoff, your post is pretty weak.
Fuck implication. It was very clearly spelled out in plain English.
Indeed. It takes a special kind of idiot to misunderstand such a simple sentence and concept: given the same design, a CPU clocked at a higher frequency will outperform the one at lower frequency. Super-fucking-simple. NOTHING ELSE WAS STATED OR IMPLIED.
Ah well, idiocracy and fucktardocracy.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Gio that I'm crazy about: for EUR 122 (no contract) I get a gorgeous albeit smallish AMOLED screen and all the processing power I'll ever need from a phone.
Where do you live and who is your operator? (Finland here.)
I can't for the life of me figure out how you'd mix a keyboard and a touch screen and have that make sense.
Ergonomically, it would suck to have to reach up to your monitor from typing ... it would look like hitting the carriage return on an old typewriter or something. :-P
On my desk, my monitor is about a foot or more behind my keyboard, I'd need to lean forward to even touch it.
Either I'm suffering from a large lack of imagination, or all of these people clamoring for a keyboard and a touch screen haven't thought this through. It seems more like you'd get a bad compromise of both.
Let me first be clear: I agree with this. However, all you wrote doesn't still mean that having Android compatibility in ChromeOS wouldn't be a good idea. After all, some Android apps are better suited for phones, others are better (or actually exclusive to) tablets, and this trend is going to continue as Android tablets take ever larger chunks of the tablet market. I can easily imagine companies modifying some of their tablet-centric apps to run well on a keyboard-and-mouse device such as a Chromebook. It really isn't rocket surgery.
Make the manufacturer responsible for recycling the thrown away device and charge an additional tax for that so that it becomes more economical to design the device to last (or be repaired). And extend the mandatory warranty to 5 years for devices that are more expensive than, say, 100EUR...
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If more or all people were so proactive and brave (for a loose definition of bravery, anyway), this in the US would be much better for consumers. For one thing, mobile operators would have saner policies and there would be competition instead of a cartel of internet providers. GM food would be labeled as such and the composition of your food will also be declared (like it is in Europe).
When I rad that, I thought "me muscles?" Which then reminded me of "oh, me bums!" and for that I am glad :D
Once again (like in the 80's)Apple was focusing on the "classes" - selling overpriced but stylish tech to those that can afford it, while Commodore et al. sold cheap but functional computers that were purchased by everyone, and brought technology and often education, to the masses.
We are seeing the repeat of this scenario, where Apple sells overpriced but stylish tech (someone wants to challenge me on overpriced? Bring it on, the margins on the iPhone 5 are particularly succulent data) with the iPhones and iPads, and the more well-off are their customers, even according to some research. Enter Android, a free (and opensource) OS that anyone is free to use however they see fit. An deluge of Android-powered devices include smart watches, cameras, mini PCs, consoles, and of course smartphones and tablets. And among the latter two, we see both ultra-expensive ones (Vertu), high-tech ones (Samsung Galaxy S-III, Note II, etc) and... ultra cheap ones, both from known brands such as HTC, and Samsung, and from no-name Chinese companies. The latter is the one that brings tech to the masses, and for this, I am grateful to Android.