Inexperienced programmers do that. Experienced programmers know to take their intitial estimate, double it, and add a week before they answer any questions about how much time something will take.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Lots of great beers are distributed in cans and you'd be a fool to buy a bottle over a can for any beer worth drinking.
I'm not talking about Schludwiller crap here, I'm talking about American craft brewed beer.
You'd have to ask them. I sincerely doubt it won't make them a nickel. But I'm sure some marketing stooge in the bowels of Apple is sure that it will solidify their brand to only ship Apple brand applications with their new devices, giving them a platform to synerigistically leverage their common assets. It's certainly not about providing the best service for their customers, that's for damn sure.
Is this really news? Apple has yet again opted to screw its users in order to attempt to make more money. This strategy has NEVER worked for them in the past. The only successful marketing strategy that the company has ever been able to execute (and only in the last 6 years) is to sell quality products at reasonable prices. They've got quite a track record for screwing over third party hardware and software vendors, and abusing their own users in the process. I was hoping this short-sighted land grab crap was going to end once Steve Jobs kicked the bucket, but apparently not.
You equate "rolling your own" proprietary application with F/OSS "movement". This is incongruous..
You equate Android support with support for F/OSS. This is not necessarily the case.
The OP stated that Apple's new connector and the loss of Google's applications as a reason to consider using Android, and you made it into a nonsensicle rant against F/OSS.
You were offended by the scene where Brian is on the hill next to Jesus while he's saying the sermon on the mount? Are you sure you actually saw Life of Brian? It's about Brian, not Jesus.
You speak as if "Freedom of Speech" should protect the speaker from the consequences of their speech. This is an incorrect assumption. Just because one has the right to speak their mind doesn't indemnify them from the reactions of the audience. All it means is that they won't be stopped by the government, and they won't be arrested. That's all.
I've had the same three iPhones. Never used a case on either of them but both the 3G and the 3GS started developing cracks in the white plastic around the edges. Both of those phones were exchanged several times for this same cracking issue. It made me give up on iPhone. I sold them both and got a Droid.
The 4S I never used with a case. I dropped it once and luckily it only scuffed the aluminum band. I had to get a bumper case for it though, because I started to got a blister on my pinky finger where it would rub against the aluminum band where the 30-pin connecter pit is.
With this new LIghtning connecter business I'm through with my Apple experiment. I grudgingly went along with the 30-pin connecter because it was fairly standard, but I'm not paying $20 for new cables or $30 for the privilege of using some of my old stuff (not all of it is compatible, of course). All this added cost coupled with decreased functionality? No thanks.
So being able to get a refund when an app doesn't run on your device means that there is no fragmentation? Having some cumbersome recourse (which is far less friednly than Androids instantly available "return this" feature) means that Apple isn't foisting software that can't be used on unsuspecting users?
Or does this all mean that you're an institutionalized stooge, already used to apologizing for Apple's failures?
No. That's flat out not true. When you log in to purchase the application, you'll get a big fat "no can do, boss" when you attempt to purchase and you don't have a device on your account that can use it.
Most of the satellite internet services use regionally aimed sats that don't aim too far away from land. I have heard of radio based internet service so you can send and receive email, but it's too slow for PPP (9600bps max). It don't pay to point a satellite at a mostly empty ocean.
Not at all, since a genuine Linux geek wouldn't couple Debian and Ubuntu as a nick. Debian folks wouldn't advertise for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu users usually know little about Debian.
Yeah, because Linux people are all exactly the same.
iOS fragmentation is far worse than Android fragmentation, because the Apple App Store has no problem selling you software that you can't use on your devices. Google Play won't let you buy an app that won't work on your device, which mitigates a lot of the problems that exist because of fragmentation.
It's annoying because decent software will get rated down on the App Store because it doesn't work on the iPad 1 and angry suckers leave low ratings to show their anger at Apple's incompetence.
You do realize that NFC on these phones is not a passive system that responds to any appropriate input the way that RFID does? You do realize that it has the capacity to discriminate between readers and can opt not to respond to any signal that floats through its transom, unlike RFID?
If I were you, I'd take that phone of yours and smash it with a rock, because that's the only way your data will be safe.
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Note that micro USB isn't doesn't support the functionality the iPhone needs. See http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-lightning-vs-micro-usb-2012-9
Neither does the Lightning connector. No ipod controls. No analog audio out. No 12-volt charging.
So why is it that we need this new connector again? One that does less than the previous one but will require all new cables and accessories?
Inexperienced programmers do that. Experienced programmers know to take their intitial estimate, double it, and add a week before they answer any questions about how much time something will take.
Spaten is sold in a can. Guiness is sold in a can.
I've never had any issues with aluminum taste in good beers. Think of the can as a small keg that you can crush against your head.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Lots of great beers are distributed in cans and you'd be a fool to buy a bottle over a can for any beer worth drinking.
I'm not talking about Schludwiller crap here, I'm talking about American craft brewed beer.
...or buy your pop in Big Gulp cup. Sorry NYC.
You reap what you sow... :)
You'd have to ask them. I sincerely doubt it won't make them a nickel. But I'm sure some marketing stooge in the bowels of Apple is sure that it will solidify their brand to only ship Apple brand applications with their new devices, giving them a platform to synerigistically leverage their common assets. It's certainly not about providing the best service for their customers, that's for damn sure.
Is this really news? Apple has yet again opted to screw its users in order to attempt to make more money. This strategy has NEVER worked for them in the past. The only successful marketing strategy that the company has ever been able to execute (and only in the last 6 years) is to sell quality products at reasonable prices. They've got quite a track record for screwing over third party hardware and software vendors, and abusing their own users in the process. I was hoping this short-sighted land grab crap was going to end once Steve Jobs kicked the bucket, but apparently not.
Your argument makes no sense.
You equate "rolling your own" proprietary application with F/OSS "movement". This is incongruous..
You equate Android support with support for F/OSS. This is not necessarily the case.
The OP stated that Apple's new connector and the loss of Google's applications as a reason to consider using Android, and you made it into a nonsensicle rant against F/OSS.
The word is god, not g-o-d.
The name, a proper noun, is God, not god. Thor is a god. God is the judeo-christian god.
You were offended by the scene where Brian is on the hill next to Jesus while he's saying the sermon on the mount? Are you sure you actually saw Life of Brian? It's about Brian, not Jesus.
You speak as if "Freedom of Speech" should protect the speaker from the consequences of their speech. This is an incorrect assumption. Just because one has the right to speak their mind doesn't indemnify them from the reactions of the audience. All it means is that they won't be stopped by the government, and they won't be arrested. That's all.
I've been through 3 iphones - a 3g, 3g-s and 4-s.
I've had the same three iPhones. Never used a case on either of them but both the 3G and the 3GS started developing cracks in the white plastic around the edges. Both of those phones were exchanged several times for this same cracking issue. It made me give up on iPhone. I sold them both and got a Droid.
The 4S I never used with a case. I dropped it once and luckily it only scuffed the aluminum band. I had to get a bumper case for it though, because I started to got a blister on my pinky finger where it would rub against the aluminum band where the 30-pin connecter pit is.
With this new LIghtning connecter business I'm through with my Apple experiment. I grudgingly went along with the 30-pin connecter because it was fairly standard, but I'm not paying $20 for new cables or $30 for the privilege of using some of my old stuff (not all of it is compatible, of course). All this added cost coupled with decreased functionality? No thanks.
Not any more. No iPod out on the new connector. Fart.
If he worked for MS, he'd have realized that XNA is in the process of being deprecated.
XNA is dead in the water. Microsoft has said as much. For gaming support on WIndows 8/WIndows Phone 8, you're stuck with C++/Direct3D. :(
So being able to get a refund when an app doesn't run on your device means that there is no fragmentation? Having some cumbersome recourse (which is far less friednly than Androids instantly available "return this" feature) means that Apple isn't foisting software that can't be used on unsuspecting users?
Or does this all mean that you're an institutionalized stooge, already used to apologizing for Apple's failures?
No. That's flat out not true. When you log in to purchase the application, you'll get a big fat "no can do, boss" when you attempt to purchase and you don't have a device on your account that can use it.
And learn how to properly keel-haul a scalliwag. Discipline is paramount. Flogging technique is essential, unless you want to get cramps.
Most of the satellite internet services use regionally aimed sats that don't aim too far away from land. I have heard of radio based internet service so you can send and receive email, but it's too slow for PPP (9600bps max). It don't pay to point a satellite at a mostly empty ocean.
Not at all, since a genuine Linux geek wouldn't couple Debian and Ubuntu as a nick. Debian folks wouldn't advertise for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu users usually know little about Debian.
Yeah, because Linux people are all exactly the same.
Yeah, because you paid a premium for a '286 three years ago. So relevant, your argument.
iOS fragmentation is far worse than Android fragmentation, because the Apple App Store has no problem selling you software that you can't use on your devices. Google Play won't let you buy an app that won't work on your device, which mitigates a lot of the problems that exist because of fragmentation.
It's annoying because decent software will get rated down on the App Store because it doesn't work on the iPad 1 and angry suckers leave low ratings to show their anger at Apple's incompetence.
You do realize that NFC on these phones is not a passive system that responds to any appropriate input the way that RFID does? You do realize that it has the capacity to discriminate between readers and can opt not to respond to any signal that floats through its transom, unlike RFID?
If I were you, I'd take that phone of yours and smash it with a rock, because that's the only way your data will be safe.
Ok, dumb-dumb, you're mixing up NFC with RFID.